The only time I can get my 4 1/2 month old ds to feed properly and for any length of time is last thing in the evening and during the night - the rest of the time life is just too exciting, even if it's just the 2 of us on the sofa or bed with no distractions.
5 minutes is as long as he'll stay on for and there's no way I can persuade him to feed for longer, even if it's been 3 hours or more since his last feed. I feel like my supply is suffering as he won't persevere beyond one let down, and I'm getting really frustrated, not to mention knackered, as he'll happily feed 2 or 3 times in the night.
We've both had colds and I don't know if that's caused the problem if he's too stuffed up to feed, and I've been very run down and off my food so would this have affected my milk?
I've avoided having him weighed the last couple of weeks so don't know if it's affected his weight gain, but I am getting to the point of thinking I can't breastfeed him any more, not because I don't want to but because it's such bloody hard work.
To add to this, he started out as a really good sleeper, was able to settle himself easily and did a good stretch of 6 or 7 hours in the night from early on, and now struggles to settle himself and I'm lucky if I get 3 hours out of him. I feel that I must have done something horrifically wrong to turn a good feeder/sleeper into such a crappy one.
I was determined not to try and force a routine onto him after tying myself up in knots with ds1, but met a friend today who's done Gina and now has her baby sleeping through with a bottle of ebm at 10. She sat contentedly feeding in a busy cafe whilst ds was all over the place.
He is alert, very smily and has plenty of wet / dirty nappies so I know there's nothing too badly out of sorts but it's getting me down and I feel as though my milk is disappearing because he's just not interested.
God, sorry for long rant. Any advice????